Archives Tag: Brands we love
Brands We Love: Wood et Al
April 19, 2022
The level of comfort we enjoy in our homes and offices is partly determined by the quality of the furniture they contain. When our seats are welcoming of our bodies and our center tables are pleasing on the eyes, we enjoy our spaces a bit more. It’s pleasant experiences like this that wood and furniture … Continue reading Brands We Love: Wood et Al
Brands We Love: Sona Agro-Allied Foods
April 19, 2022
Nigeria has a competitive biscuits industry that’s growing all the time. In 2016, a KPMG put the value of the country’s market for cookies and other such consumables at about ₦121 billion. Apparently, there’s still enough room for the new players that venture into the segment every other year. One of the better-known brands to … Continue reading Brands We Love: Sona Agro-Allied Foods
Brands We Love: Helium Health
April 19, 2022
Digital technology is making inroads into Nigeria’s healthcare system, and it’s doing so swiftly. At one time, the country’s hospitals relied on pen, paper and old typewriters to get their recordkeeping done. Inefficiency was rife; patients waited days to see a doctor. Thanks to modern tech, this picture is changing. Companies like Helium Health are … Continue reading Brands We Love: Helium Health
Top 5 Brands We Love of 2019
April 19, 2022
Throughout this year, we have profiled some of Nigeria’s biggest brands. We have also shone our spotlight on emerging businesses, and reviewed startups disrupting the country’s old industrial landscape. As the year draws to a close, we take another look at some of these brands and recall the peculiar qualities that made us examine them … Continue reading Top 5 Brands We Love of 2019
Brands We Love: OmoAlata
April 19, 2022
It’s hard to satisfy your craving for fresh food when you’re working a 9-5 job in a big, traffic-choked city. Where’s the time to buy the greens and tomatoes, or to slice and cook them into anything worthy of your palettes? Kasope Ladipo-Ajai set out to solve this problem in 2012 when she founded OmoAlata, … Continue reading Brands We Love: OmoAlata
Brands We Love: Dala Foods
April 19, 2022
For the variety of indigenous foods that it boasts, Nigeria’s packaged foods industry puts out only a fraction of what it can. The sector is growing, but it’s barely representative of the rich culinary heritage of the country’s many ethnicities. Dala Foods is one of a handful of companies working to plug this deficit. They … Continue reading Brands We Love: Dala Foods
Brands We Love: Envoy Group
April 19, 2022
The southeastern city of Onitsha is home to a number of significant business concerns. Taken together, these businesses form the commercial heart of the area, employing thousands of persons and producing goods that are consumed across the country. One of these concerns is the Envoy Group, a conglomerate that’s been growing by leaps and bounds. … Continue reading Brands We Love: Envoy Group
Brands We Love: APMIS
April 19, 2022
For most of its existence, Nigeria’s medical institutions ran a lot of processes manually. Hospitals held their patients’ medical records in paper files, which they had to manually sort through whenever a returning patient came on a scheduled visit. The dispensing and accounting processes weren’t any better. Cashiers collected wads of cash and did tedious … Continue reading Brands We Love: APMIS
Brands We Love: Medsaf
April 19, 2022
Access to quality medication is still a big challenge for many Nigerians. The cities are awash with independent pharmacies, and medicines can be bought from hospitals and clinics. But it’s not always certain that the drugs being sold are authentic. It’s this uncertainty that Medsaf, a healthcare startup, exists to tackle. They are working to … Continue reading Brands We Love: Medsaf
Brands We Love: RecyclePoints
April 19, 2022
Nigerians produce over 34 million tonnes of solid waste annually. Some of this gets picked up and sent to recycling facilities, where they are reprocessed into useful material or tools. But most of it falls out of the waste management system. That portion is represented by the cans, discarded newspapers, and rags that litter Nigeria’s … Continue reading Brands We Love: RecyclePoints
Brands We Love: Niger Insurance
April 19, 2022
The insurance sector in Nigeria has grown quite rapidly over the past decade and a half. Thanks to a shift in public policy which recognized the importance of getting private property insured, as well as a growing awareness on the part of Nigerians about the need to plan for uncertainties, the industry has risen from … Continue reading Brands We Love: Niger Insurance
Brands We Love: HealthPlus Pharmacy
April 19, 2022
Before Bukky George became the ‘Queen of Retail’, she was an upwardly mobile professional who worked at a global pharmaceutical giant. Her dream has since caused her to travel on a different path. And thanks to her desire to make that dream come alive, a whole niche was birthed in Nigeria’s healthcare industry. That dream … Continue reading Brands We Love: HealthPlus Pharmacy
Brands We Love: Layer3
April 19, 2022
In the past couple of decades, businesses in Nigeria have grown more dependent on digital technology. Cloud accounting tools, subscription systems, team coordination aids, and project management software are just some of the solutions that have sprung up from this revolution. A few words will suffice to describe what has gone on in this time: … Continue reading Brands We Love: Layer3
Brands We Love: Adron Homes
April 19, 2022
Nigeria has a staggering housing deficit; anywhere between 17 and 20 million homes are required to plug the gap between the number of habitable housing units available and what’s being demanded by the country’s population. Ola Adetola Emmanuel-King says he was aiming to solve this problem when he set up Adron Homes, a real estate … Continue reading Brands We Love: Adron Homes
Brands We Love: Value Seeds
April 19, 2022
Nigerian farmers often struggle to make the most of the spaces they cultivate. While they might receive help with fertilizers and extension services (if they’re lucky), they still can’t harvest as much as they would want from their relatively small farmlands. The country appears to be producing less per square meter of farmland for many … Continue reading Brands We Love: Value Seeds
